1Chronicles:11:10-47
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These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had ,
who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom ,
and with all Israel ,
to make him king ,
according to the word of the LORD concerning Israel .
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And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had ;
Jashobeam ,
an Hachmonite ,
the chief of the captains :
he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time .
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And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo ,
the Ahohite ,
who was one of the three mighties .
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He was with David at Pasdammim ,
and there the Philistines were gathered together to battle ,
where was a parcel of ground full of barley ;
and the people fled from before the Philistines .
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And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel ,
and delivered it ,
and slew the Philistines ;
and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance .
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Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David ,
into the cave of Adullam ;
and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim .
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And David was then in the hold ,
and the Philistines '
garrison was then at Bethlehem .
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And David longed ,
and said ,
Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem ,
that is at the gate !
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And the three brake through the host of the Philistines ,
and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem ,
that was by the gate ,
and took it ,
and brought it to David :
but David would not drink of it ,
but poured it out to the LORD ,
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And said ,
My God forbid it me ,
that I should do this thing :
shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy ?
for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it .
Therefore he would not drink it .
These things did these three mightiest .
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And Abishai the brother of Joab ,
he was chief of the three :
for lifting up his spear against three hundred ,
he slew them ,
and had a name among the three .
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Of the three ,
he was more honourable than the two ;
for he was their captain :
howbeit he attained not to the first three .
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Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel ,
who had done many acts ;
he slew two lionlike men of Moab :
also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day .
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And he slew an Egyptian ,
a man of great stature ,
five cubits high ;
and in the Egyptian '
s hand was a spear like a weaver '
s beam ;
and he went down to him with a staff ,
and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian '
s hand ,
and slew him with his own spear .
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These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada ,
and had the name among the three mighties .
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Behold ,
he was honourable among the thirty ,
but attained not to the first three :
and David set him over his guard .
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Also the valiant men of the armies were ,
Asahel the brother of Joab ,
Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem ,
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Shammoth the Harorite ,
Helez the Pelonite ,
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Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite ,
Abiezer the Antothite ,
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Sibbecai the Hushathite ,
Ilai the Ahohite ,
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Maharai the Netophathite ,
Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite ,
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Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah ,
that pertained to the children of Benjamin ,
Benaiah the Pirathonite ,
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Hurai of the brooks of Gaash ,
Abiel the Arbathite ,
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Azmaveth the Baharumite ,
Eliahba the Shaalbonite ,
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The sons of Hashem the Gizonite ,
Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite ,
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Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite ,
Eliphal the son of Ur ,
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Hepher the Mecherathite ,
Ahijah the Pelonite ,
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Hezro the Carmelite ,
Naarai the son of Ezbai ,
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Joel the brother of Nathan ,
Mibhar the son of Haggeri ,
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Zelek the Ammonite ,
Naharai the Berothite ,
the armourbearer of Joab the son of Zeruiah ,
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Ira the Ithrite ,
Gareb the Ithrite ,
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Uriah the Hittite ,
Zabad the son of Ahlai ,
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Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite ,
a captain of the Reubenites ,
and thirty with him ,
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Hanan the son of Maachah ,
and Joshaphat the Mithnite ,
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Uzzia the Ashterathite ,
Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite ,
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Jediael the son of Shimri ,
and Joha his brother ,
the Tizite ,
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Eliel the Mahavite ,
and Jeribai ,
and Joshaviah ,
the sons of Elnaam ,
and Ithmah the Moabite ,
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Eliel ,
and Obed ,
and Jasiel the Mesobaite .